Ilves, 59, is equal parts Old World intellectual and 21st-century tech maven, wearing a bow tie and casually quoting Alexander Pope while discussing the finer points of geopolitics and data systems. In his mind, it all fits together. “There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing,” he says. “If you think about it, a sonnet is 14 lines of 10 syllables, so your Twitter is one degree lower: It’s not 140 syllables, which a sonnet is, it’s 140 characters, so that requires even greater concision.”
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